In my research of archtop guitars I stumbled on this site. This is amazing craftmanship from German luthiers. This link shows Hofner guitars, at the top and bottom of pages you will find an index leading to other builders. Some of these are just phenominal. If anyone knows of other links I'd be interested in seeing them.
http://jazzgitarren.k-server.org/hofner.html
http://jazzgitarren.k-server.org/hofner.html